ment, but to blind chance.
17. George of Machod, Auditor and Patron of the Brethren in Moravia from his youth, afterwards (from a Noble-man being made a Count) he became a moſt perverſe Apoſtate (who buried holy Bibles in ſtinking channels, as we have noted in the chapter immediately preceding) and was puniſhed by God after a miraculous manner, with a terrible diſeaſe in his throat, whereby his tongue putrified, and many holes were eaten out below his chin: ſo that whatſoever nouriſhment or medicines entred into his mouth, did either ſtraightway flow forth, or diſtilled out by little and little. All remedies therefore being uſed in vaine, after his ſuffering cruel torments about two moneths ſpace, he breathed out his ſoul, which was moſt unſteadfaſt, and ſold to Antichriſt, for the ſmoak of honours.
18. At Niclaspurg in the Tower of Cardinall Ditrichſteinius and Governour of Moravia, (in the year 1626) a ſhrill voice was heard two houres before day, doubling, Wo, Wo, Wo. Many raiſed by this voice (the Secretaries aroſe at that time to their buſineſſes) and aſtoniſhed with the news, heard this voice four times. And becauſe the voice ſeemed to ſound from under the houſe tops, they went up with lights for to know the matter: they then heard the ſame words abundantly repeated, ſometimes in Dutch, Weh, Weh, Weh, other times in the Bohe-
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